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Flowering glume produced into a fine straight awn, entire or with a 
tooth, lobe or short awn on each side of the terminal awn. 
Palea folded or with two prominent nerves. 
Rhachis of the spikelet produced behind the palea and bearing one 
or more empty glumes, all awned, and usually with their ends on a 
level with that of the flowering glume. 
Spikes digitate, slender. Spikelets acute. Flowering glume usually 
witha tooth, lobe or short awn on each side of the terminal 
one. 
Spikes six to twelve or more, 3 to6inches long. Spikelets distant, 
3 lines long. Flowering glumes tapering into the awn, or 
very minutely toothed.. 5. C. acicularis. 
Spikes digitate, slender, 3 to 6 inches long. Spikelets very “obtuse 
or truncate. 
Spikelets cuneate, truncate, 1 to 14 lines long. Flowering 
glume, oblong, obtuse. Upper empty one broad, truncate 6. C. truncata. 
Spikelets very obtuse, 14 to 2 lines. Hlowegne glume yey 
broad, embracing the narrower empty one . “ 7. C. ventricosa. 
Spikes digitate, dense, 1 to 2 inches long. 
Flowering glume broad, rigidly scarious, ciliate. Upper as 
glumes several. Broad, scarious, very spreading... 9. C. scariosa. 
5. Chloris acicularis, Lindl. 
Botanical name.—Chloris, the Greek word for pale green, in allusion 
to the colour of some of these grasses; acicularis, from the Latin 
needle-shaped or acicular, in allusion to the shape of the spikelets. 
Vernacular name.—*‘ Lesser Star Grass.” 
Where figured.—Agricultural Gazette. 
Botanical description. (B. Fl. vii, 612).—A glabrous erect grass of 
1 to 2 feet. 
Leaves flat, the lower sheaths broad and flattened. 
Spikes six to twelve or even more, at first erect, but at length horizontally spreading 
as in C. divaricata, 3 to 4 inches long, slender, and often purplish. 
Spikelets rather distant. 
Outer glumes narrow, keeled, tapering to fine points, the lowest 14 to 2 lines, the 
second 3 lines long. 
Flowering glume about 2 lines, narrow, three-nerved, tapering into an awn of about 
4 inch, with sometimes, but not always, a short point on each side at the base. 
Palea long, narrow, prominently two-nerved. 
Terminal empty glume with an awn sometimes as long as that of the flowering glume, 
but usually shorter. 
Value as a fodder.—The very closely allied C. Roxburghiana, Edgew., 
is not uncommon in Northern India, and often grows amongst bushes, 
where its stems attain a considerable height. It is stated to be a 
good fodder grass in Ajmere. (Duthie.) 
Habitat and range——Found in all the colonies except Tasmania. 
In New South Wales it extends from the table-land to the interior. 
6. Chloris truncata, R.Br. 
Botanical name.—Truncata, Latin, maimed or mangled, hence 
“ cut off” (truncate), which the glumes appear to be. 
Vernacular names.—“* Windmill Grass” or “ Star Grass.” 
Where jfigured.—Agricultural Gazette. 
